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The Weekly University Courier.
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
SOCIETIES.
Science Club--Meets in Snow Hall every other week. Please be a resident, president, secretary, C. R. Chuker
Seminary of Historical and Political Science—Meets in room 14, University building, every other Friday from 4 to 6. F. W. Blackmar, director.
Philosophical Club—Meets in room No. 20, University building, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
Kent Club—Meets in North College every Friday afternoon at 1:30. Admits law students only.
University Glee Club—Meets in Music room, North College, every Wednesday at 5 p. m., and every Saturday at 9 a.m. Prof. Penny, directory.
inarmaceutical Society-Meets in the Lecture room, Chemistry building, every other Friday at 4 p. m., A. J. Eicholtz, president.
Adelphic Literary Society—Meets in Adelphic hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor, every Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
FRATERNITIES.
Phi Kappa Psi—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Opera House block.
Phi Beta Kappa—Honoray collegiate fraternity.
Phi Gamma Delta—Meets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House block.
Sigma XI—Honorary scientific fraternity.
Beta Theta Pi—Meets every Saturday evening on 4th floor of Opera House block.
Phi Delta Theta—Meets every Saturday evening on third floor of Journal building.
Kappa Alpha Theta -Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
Sigma Nu—Yeets every Saturday evening on 3rd floor of Eldridge House block.
Pi Beta Phi—Meets every Saturday after noon at the homes of members.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Meets every Sat urday afternoon in its hall 2d floor K. of P. hall.
Sigma Chi-Meets every Saturday evening on the third floor of Opera House block.
Memorabilia Club—For the collection of statistics and relics relating to the history of Kansas State University. President, M. W. Sterling; Secretary, V. L. Kellogg.
Oratorical Association of the Students of Kansas State University'y—President, R. D. O'Leary, Secretary, W. H. Riddle.
University Athletic Association—President, H. E. Copper; Secretary, W. D. Kross;常务副总裁, T. Cullis; Totals Association, Base Ball association and Foot Ball association.
Camera Club-Meets once a month. President, Prof. Williston; Secretary, E.C. Case.
Telegraph Club—President, Prof. L. I Blake; Secretary, E. Blaker.
Y. M. C. A.—Meets in University building, room 11, every Friday at 7:30 p.m. President, C. P. Chapman; Secretary, H. B. Hall.
Y. W. C. A.—Meets in University building, north wing, 3rd floor, every Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. President; Virginia Spencer; Secretary, Alberta Corbin.
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The voters are not registering very fast at the city clerks office, but a few come in every day.
The Phi Gams mourn over Absalom and the Phi Psis rejoice. The Phi Gams get their tears dried in time to assist in the Phi Psis's burial of their best beloved.
OXFORD University will send an eight oared crew to Chicago for the world's fair if it can be assured that American college crews will be there to compete.—Ex.
Here's a chance for our oarsmen.
We feel flattered to learn that the celebrated T. A. Edison has been attempting to steal some of our thunder. Prof. Blake has his eye on him and at the same time is looking after the Fog Signal.
The University Argus of the Missouri State University suggests that their young looking professors wear badges so that they may be readily distinguished from the students.
The idea that the University student body is corrupt or that any large portion of it is should be dispelled. The University authorities have only recognized a growing element in the University which in Harvard, Yale and the older schools, has been left undisturbed until it became what is called, the "shiftless third." In doing this the authorities are only keeping in touch with the attitude of the state on all moral questisms. Old students and friends of the University must not get the impression that the University is getting corrupt, as the late measures, when judged by just measure, might indicate.
THE Winfield Courier quotes our statement about the Winfield orator and gives quite a glowing account of the oration. We have also received a number of communications from Winfield for publication. We willingly print that of Mr. M. E. Phillips as it seems the fairest we have received.
To the Editor of the COURTER:
To the Editor of the COURIER:
The article in a recent issue of your paper in reference to the late oratorical contest in the Southwest Kansas College, greatly wrongs the successful orator of that occasion, who is a most estimable young man, and in every respect worthy of the place he won.
Not only does the article wrong the orator, but it casts a very unjust reflection upon as honorable and competent body of judges as ever rendered decision in a contest. They were chosen by a committee of the faculty of the college, and are men who could not be influenced in their decisions by fear, favor or prejudice. There were differences of opinion as to the merits of the several oratars, as is the case in all such contests; but the school and the community are unanimous in support of the decision of the judges, and will stand by the orator. There is no division concerning the representative of this college in the next state contest. Please give place to this correction.
M. E. PHILLIPS.
Very respectfully,
WE HAVE A GYM.
Isn't it time we were looking after our foot ball interests for the coming year? The brilliant success of our team this year must not be eclipsed next by any oversight on our part. Several of the players of this years team will not be back next year and there is little time after the opening of the fall term to drill new men up to the desired standard. It is evident that to make our success assured something must be done at once. There are plenty of men in the University who would become active foot ball men if they had the proper encouragement and drill.
We would suggest that the foot ball management recall the names of all students interested in foot ball who who will be here at the opening of the fall term. Arrange hours for drill in the gymnasium so that each man may drill at least one hour per day. As an inducement to take part in the drill let no charges be made for the use of the gymnasium. The gymnasium as it has sank into a state of innocuous desuetude as far as good to the student body is concerned. By this means interest in the gymnasium will be kept up and we will have a large number of men with trained and hardened muscles to form a team K. S. U. will then again drag after her triumphal chariot the captive teams of four states.
G. Y. M.
"WHEN a man says he is self-made we never deny it; it is easily seen that some idiot did the job."
"Death is that stage in the game of life where man is caught bluffing and Gabriel takes the pot." — Atlantis.
These sayings look familiar. We are open to flattery but please pat us on the back and add COURIER to such clippings.
Here's another bit of wisdom A lantis was not "onto,"
"The crimson star of destiny in the foot ball world, is still in the ascendency."—K. U. COURIER. Well, that's the first time we've heard that "Gilly" played foot ball. Atlantis.
You'd better get a lease on the dead cold moon and move off this earth. My dear boy, do post up a little bit and try to keep up with the times.
The faculty at Harvard have a peculiar way of burdening down the students with rules such as"The foot ball team shall not play in New York City;" "The base ball team shall play no professional team," but the K. S. U. faculty have another way of letting the boys know they are in it. "Two months canst thou play poker but at the end of the third thou shalt go home to thy parents." The action of the faculty though some think it too harsh and others think it a little tardy on the stage meets with the approbation of the majority of the students.
ORATORS.
It will be worth your while to spend Saturday evening listening to President Quayle.
An immense Crowd Filled the Chapel to Hear Our Talented Speakers.
A Gist of the Different Orations The Prospects for our Winning in the State Contest Exceedingly Good.
(Saturday Morning.)
Last night the University chapel was filled to more than overflowing by the friends, admirers and sup porters of the different orators. After the invocation by Dr. Mar vin and a selection by the orchestra Mr. Frank Lutz made his debut as asorator before a critical audience. Mr. Lutz had for his subject "The Individual's Ideal of Life and its Social Influence."
In substance he said: The progress of society is dependent upon the individual as the social fabric but an aggregate of individuals. To raise the standard of society we must acquire wealth, seek pleasure or renown. Wealth emancipates from labor and gives leisure for moral and higher aims and purposes. The habits which wealth places on man can never raise or elevate as is shown by the decline of the wealthy empires of the past. Whoever longs for the well being of humanity cannot feel that pleasure should be the ideal of life. It is the same with fame. It is nothing but a delusive phantom that allures men on to an imaginary world that seldom becomes a reality. Man's real worth is measured by his intellectual qualities. Through this medium alone can the individual and society be elevated.
Mr. R. D. Brown was the second speaker on the program. Mr. Brown is an experienced speaker and the audience awaited his first sentence with a hush of expectation. His style of oratory is of the solid argumentative type and showed a decided improvement over that of last year. His gestures were easy and flowing and all who had predicted first place for him felt confident that he was the winner, as he drew his oration to a close. His oration was the familiar one in the University, being entitled, "The Spirit of Dissent a Factor in Progress." The laws which govern the rise of states are hindered to the laws of nature. Progress requires the peaceful colabor of men in matters of government and agreement in social intercourse. Yet it does not require all peace nor all agreement. Every ideal conception, every unfulfilled ambition, every aspiration of the soul is a dissent from existing conditions. All nations have risen by revolutions, a spirit of dissent with existing arrangements. The end of the process is when all friction is diminished and right shall be its own sufficient advocate before the bar of an enlightened and conscientious humanity.
was Hall Riddle. His subject was "The Voice of the Middle Ages." His oration said in substance:
The next speaker on the program
Today mankind reaps the benefit of the two great achievements of the Renaissance—the discovery of the world and the discovery of man. It was Dante who initiated this movement of modern intellect.
His Divine Comedy closes the Middle Ages and preserves their spirits. It is the drama of the soul into which are concentrated God, the world and man; in it was the soul of the Middle Ages rendered forever visible. Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of expression had in Dante a new birth; by him a fresh impulse was given to the natural movement of humanity in the onward progress of which we still participate.
Mr. W, W. Brown followed Mr. Riddle with an oration entitled "Christ or Napoleon."
He believed that most of the world's fighting has been unnecessary, a waste of energy. War is not a part of nature's plan of progress. It is the result of pride and selfishness, the folly of man. The French revolution is said to have been the beginning of popular government; but freedom is not found in reigns of terror. In the empire of Napoleon the arts of peace, the knowledge and culture whose nature it is to refine and chasten the human mind were devoted to the scenes of war with its attending hatred and glory. It was all selfishness. In our own country it was selfishness on the part of the south and pretenses on the part of the north that caused the civil war.
J. M. Challis was the fifth speaker on the program and was most cordially received. Mr. Challis is new to the rostrum and this was his first appearance before a K.S.U. audience. The subject of his oration was Shylock and Justice. Mr. Challis in his oration took the side of the despised race and, making Shylock the impersonation of the whole Jewish race showed the wrongs that had been heaped upon them.
"Although but a fiction the Jew has had his defamers and defenders. Here we see him pictured as the incarnation of wickedness, there as the injured party seeking redress; here as the insatiable Christian hater and there as a martyr to his religion and his God. Thus: fire famine, pestilence, murder and the sword were the lot of the Jew. Shylock was a Jew. There stands Shylock penniless, childless, friendless. He is stunned and dazed. The agony in that breast is none the less sharp because silently borne. A cry of anguish or pain from that bruised and bleeding soul would find no sympathetic ear. At one time he felt he was the defender of his race, the vindicator of his religion; the fabric falls, and he finds he is only the despised Mediaeval Jew, Life's hopes, aspirations and victories have given place to defeats, sorrows and disappointments. Before him he sees
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